Deaths in March 2001

The following is a list of notable deaths in March 2001.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
 * Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

1

 * Joseph Cyril Bamford, 84, British businessman.
 * Ray Dorr, 59, American college football player (West Virginia Wesleyan) and coach (Southern Illinois, Kentucky, Texas A&M), ALS.
 * Albert Heschong, 82, American television, film and theater production designer (winner of Emmy Award for Art Direction for Requiem for a Heavyweight).
 * John Painter, 112, American supercentarian, world's oldest man.
 * Orlando Pantera, 33, Cape Verdean singer and composer, acute pancreatitis.
 * Hannie Termeulen, 72, Dutch Olympic freestyle swimmer (bronze medal winner in the 1948 Summer Olympics and two-time silver medal winner in the 1952 Summer Olympics).
 * Henry Wade, 86, American lawyer and district attorney of Dallas County, Parkinson's disease.
 * Colin Webster, 68, Welsh international footballer, cancer.

2

 * John Diamond, 48, British Journalist, esophageal cancer.
 * George F. D. Duff, 74, Canadian mathematician.
 * Louis Faurer, 84, American street photographer.
 * Lonnie Glosson, 93, American country musician, songwriter, and radio personality.
 * Wallace D. Hayes, 82, American engineer and one of the world's leading theoretical aerodynamicists.
 * Mildred Brown Schrumpf, 98, American economist, food educator, and author.
 * William Grant Stratton, 87, American politician, governor of Illinois (1953-1961).

3

 * Louis Edmonds, 77, American actor (Dark Shadows, All My Children), respiratory failure.
 * A. Maitland Emmet, 92, British amateur entomologist and schoolmaster.
 * Maija Isola, 73, Finnish designer of printed textiles.
 * Gabriel Lisette, 81, Chadian politician.
 * Jay T. Robbins, 81, Career officer in the American Air Force.
 * Ruhi Sarıalp, 76, Turkish track and field athlete and Olympic medalist.
 * Eugene Sledge, 77, American Marine and professor, stomach cancer.

4

 * Gerardo Barbero, 39, Argentine chess grandmaster, cancer.
 * Jean René Bazaine, 96, French painter, designer of stained glass windows and writer.
 * Clyde Coffman, 89, American decathlon athlete and Olympian.
 * Glenn Hughes, 50, American singer and member of pop group The Village People, lung cancer.
 * Brian Jones, 72, British motorcycle designer.
 * Fred Lasswell, 84, American cartoonist (Barney Google and Snuffy Smith).
 * Jim Rhodes, 91, American politician (61st and 63rd Governor of the State of Ohio).
 * Harold Stassen, 93, American politician (25th Governor of Minnesota).
 * Kalle Tuulos, 70, Finnish figure skater and Olympian.

5

 * Rankin Britt, 85, American football player (Texas A&M, Philadelphia Eagles).
 * Frans De Mulder, 63, Belgian road racing cyclist.
 * Ian McHarg, 80, Scottish architect.
 * Leo Thomas, 77, American baseball player.

6

 * Mário Covas, 70, Brazilian engineer and politician, bladder cancer.
 * Luce d'Eramo, 75, Italian author and critic.
 * Nane Germon, 91, French actress.
 * Balla Moussa Keïta, Malian actor and comedian, pulmonary emphysema.
 * Ngọc Lan, 44, Vietnamese singer-lyricist, multiple sclerosis.
 * Portia Nelson, 80, American cabaret singer, songwriter, actress (The Sound of Music, Doctor Dolittle, All My Children), and author, cancer.
 * Darrell A. Posey, 53, American anthropologist and biologist, brain tumor.
 * Jim Taylor, 83, English footballer.
 * Kim Walker, 32, American actress (Heathers, Say Anything..., The Outsiders), brain tumor.

7

 * Frankie Carle, 97, American pianist, bandleader and composer ("Sunrise Serenade").
 * Inge Edler, 89, Swedish cardiologist.
 * Hank Foldberg, 77, American gridiron football player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Chicago Hornets) and coach.
 * Ebbe Nielsen, 50, Danish entomologist and lepidoptera researcher, heart attack.
 * Marian Norkowski, 65, Polish football player.
 * Al Palladini, 57, Canadian politician, heart attack.

8

 * Frances Adaskin, 100, Canadian pianist.
 * Abe Cohen, 67, American gridiron football player.
 * Ninette de Valois, 102, British ballet dancer, teacher, choreographer and director of classical ballet.
 * Bent Hansen, 67, Danish Olympic football player (silver medal winner in men's football at the 1960 Summer Olympics).
 * Hugh Malone, 57, American surveyor and politician, accidental death.
 * Luís Rocha, 63, Brazilian politician and lawyer, diabetes.
 * Bazaryn Shirendev, 88, Mongolian historian and politician.
 * Edward Winter, 63, American actor (Cabaret, Promises, Promises, M*A*S*H), Parkinson's disease.

9

 * Vincent Alo, 96, American mobster (Genovese crime family).
 * Spencer Bernard, 83, American politician.
 * Soemitro Djojohadikoesoemo, 83, Indonesian economist and politician and the father of Prabowo Subianto, heart failure.
 * Henry Jonsson, 88, Swedish Olympic runner (bronze medal winner in men's 500 metres at the 1936 Summer Olympics).
 * Hermann Kugelstadt, 89, German screenwriter and film director.
 * Poldek Pfefferberg, 87, Polish-American Holocaust survivor.
 * Giancarlo Prete, 58, Italian actor, brain cancer.
 * Diane Sommerfield, 51, American actress (Days of Our Lives).
 * Richard Stone, 47, American composer and songwriter (Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, Freakazoid!), pancreatic cancer.

10

 * Arturo Alcaraz, 84, Filipino volcanologist.
 * Algodão, 76, Brazilian basketball player and Olympic medalist.
 * Michael Elkins, 84, American broadcaster and journalist (CBS, Newsweek, BBC).
 * Nikos Georgiadis, 77, Greek-British set designer for ballet, stage and film.
 * Frank Marsh, 76, American politician.
 * Massimo Morsello, 42, Italian fascist and political singer-songwriter, cancer.
 * Jorge Recalde, 49, Argentine rally driver, heart attack while racing.
 * Vladimir Voroshilov, 70, Soviet and Russian author, producer and television anchorman, heart attack.
 * Michael Woodruff, 89, British surgeon and scientist, and a pioneer in organ transplant surgery.

11

 * Finn Ferner, 81, Norwegian Olympic sailor (silver medal winner in 6 metre sailing at the 1952 Summer Olympics).
 * Rafaela Chacón Nardi, 75, Cuban poet and educator.
 * Jørn Ording, 85, Norwegian actor and screenwriter.
 * Ted Schmitt, 84, American gridiron football player.

12

 * Morton Downey Jr., 67, American television personality (The Morton Downey Jr. Show) and actor (Predator 2), lung cancer.
 * Dave Dunaway, 56, American NFL football player.
 * Alan Greene, 89, American Olympic diver (bronze medal winner in men's 3 metre springboard diving at the 1936 Summer Olympics).
 * Sai Gwa-Pau, 82, Hong Kong film actor, diabetes.
 * Sir Lancelot, 98, Trinidadian-American singer ("Rum and Coca-Cola") and actor.
 * Henry Lee Lucas, 64, American convicted killer, natural causes, heart failure.
 * Robert Ludlum, 73, American author of spy novels (The Bourne Identity), burn.
 * Sidney Dillon Ripley, 87, American ornithologist and conservationist.
 * Victor Westhoff, 84, Dutch botanist.

13

 * John A. Alonzo, 66, American cinematographer (Chinatown, Scarface, Norma Rae).
 * Encarnacion Alzona, 105, Filipino historian, and suffragist.
 * Bill Bland, 84, British communist.
 * Jean Bretonnière, 76, French actor and singer.
 * Vincent Dantzer, 77, Canadian politician (member of the House of Commons of Canada, mayor of Edmonton, Alberta), heart attack.
 * Walter Dukes, 70, American professional basketball player (New York Knicks, Minneapolis Lakers, Detroit Pistons).
 * Benny Martin, 72, American bluegrass fiddler.
 * Cord Meyer, 80, American Central Intelligence Agency official, lymphoma.
 * Cranley Onslow, 74, British politician.
 * Antonia Palacios, 96, Venezuelan poet, novelist and essayist.
 * Norman Rodway, 72, Irish actor (Royal Shakespeare Company).
 * Jutta Rüdiger, 90, German psychologist and head of the Nazi Party League of German Girls (Bund Deutscher Mädel) during World War II.

14

 * Rosine Deréan, 91, French actress.
 * Anne George, 73, American author and poet, complications during heart surgery.
 * Lawrence Clark Powell, 94, American librarian, literary critic, and author.
 * Paul Rémy, 78, French tennis player.
 * Della Sehorn, 73, American competition swimmer and Olympian.

15

 * Gaetano Cozzi, 78, Italian historian.
 * Durward Gorham Hall, 90, American politician (U.S. Representative for Missouri's 7th congressional district from 1961 to 1973).
 * Ryszard Koncewicz, 89, Polish soccer player and coach.
 * Henrik Schildt, 86, Finnish-Swedish film actor.
 * Ann Sothern, 92, American actress (The Ann Sothern Show, Maisie, The Whales of August), stroke.

16

 * Johannes Benzing, 88, German nazi diplomat and linguist during World War II.
 * Otfried Deubner, 92, German classical archaeologist and diplomat.
 * Juliette Huot, 89, Canadian actress (The Plouffe Family, 14, rue de Galais, Amanita Pestilens, The Luck of Ginger Coffey), cancer.
 * Norma MacMillan, 79, Canadian cartoon voice actress (The New Casper Cartoon Show, The Gumby Show, Davey and Goliath).
 * Isao Okawa, 74, Japanese businessman and chairman of Sega, heart disease.
 * Maria von Tasnady, 89, Hungarian singer and stage and film actress.
 * Bob Wollek, 57, French race car driver, bicycle accident.

17

 * Michiyo Aratama, 71, Japanese actress, heart attack.
 * Ingrid Borthen, 87, Norwegian-Swedish stage and film actress.
 * Arthur Covington, 87, Canadian physicist and radio astronomer.
 * Viktor Krivulin, 56, Russian poet, novelist and essayist.
 * Maynard Mack, 91, American literary critic and English professor.
 * Sherwin Rosen, 62, American labor economist.
 * Anthony Storr, 80, English psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and author.
 * Ralph Thomas, 85, English film director.
 * Zinaida Voronina, 53, Soviet gymnast and Olympic champion.

18

 * Vasily Abaev, 100, Ethnically Ossetian Soviet linguist specializing in Iranian.
 * John Ardoin, 66, Best.
 * Teófilo Borunda, 89, Mexican politician.
 * John Phillips, 65, American singer, promoter and co-founder of The Mamas & the Papas, heart failure.
 * Dirk Polder, 81, Dutch physicist.
 * Gyula Tóth, 73, Hungarian wrestler.

19

 * Gordon Brown, 53, Scottish rugby union player, non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
 * Boris Gregorka, 94, Yugoslavian Olympic gymnast (bronze medal winner at the 1928 Summer Olympics, 1936 Summer Olympics).
 * Charles K. Johnson, 76, American flat-earther (President of the International Flat Earth Research Society).
 * Walter Ian Harewood Johnston, 71, Australian pioneer of reproductive medicine, laryngeal cancer.
 * Herbie Jones, 75, American jazz trumpeter and arranger.
 * Jacob Kainen, 91, American painter and printmaker.
 * Norman Mitchell, 82, English actor (It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Oliver!, Beryl's Lot).

20

 * Luis Alvarado, 52, Puerto Rican baseball player, heart attack.
 * Jay Cameron, 72, American jazz musician.
 * Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes, 81, British author, bronchial pneumonia.
 * Doreen Gorsky, 88, British politician, feminist and television producer and executive (BBC Television).
 * John J. Hennessey, 79, United States Army general, stroke.
 * Frank Reynolds, 83, British and English field hockey player and Olympian.
 * Ilie Verdeț, 75, Romanian communist politician, heart attack.

21

 * Dora Alonso, 90, Cuban journalist and writer.
 * Maurice Arreckx, 83, French politician, cancer.
 * Claus Bork Hansen, 37, Danish organized crime figure, shot.
 * Virgil Hnat, 65, Romanian handball player and coach, heart failure.
 * Bill Johansen, 72, Canadian professional ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs).
 * Jeong Ju-yung, 85, South Korean entrepreneur, businessman and founder of the Hyundai Group, pneumonia.
 * Wim van der Kroft, 84, Dutch canoeist and Olympic medalist.
 * Billy Ray Smith, Sr., 66, American football player.
 * Anthony Steel, 80, British actor and singer (The Wooden Horse, Malta Story, West of Zanzibar, Checkpoint), heart failure.
 * Joe Winkler, 79, American gridiron football player.

22

 * Stepas Butautas, 75, Lithuanian basketball player.
 * Sabiha Gökçen, 88, the first Turkish female aviator and the first female combat pilot of the world.
 * William Hanna, 90, American animator (Tom & Jerry, The Flintstones, Scooby-Doo), co-founder of Hanna-Barbera, throat cancer.
 * Newt Kimball, 85, American baseball player.
 * Barry Maxwell, 12th Baron Farnham, 69, British aristocrat.
 * Rolf Birger Pedersen, 61, Norwegian footballer and football coach.
 * Edward Samuel Smith, 81, American federal judge.
 * Toby Wing, 85, American actress and pin-up star (Palmy Days, True Confession).

23

 * Anthony Bevins, 58, British journalist, pneumonia.
 * Sully Boyar, 77, American actor (Dog Day Afternoon, Car Wash, Fort Apache, The Bronx, Prizzi's Honor).
 * Louis Dudek, 83, Canadian poet, academic, and publisher.
 * Rowland Evans, 79, American journalist and television host (Evans, Novak, Hunt, & Shields), esophageal cancer.
 * Arthur D. Hasler, 93, American ecologist, known for explaining salmon's homing instinct.
 * Willie Horne, 79, British rugby league player.
 * Margaret Ursula Jones, 84, British archaeologist, known for directing excavations at Mucking, Essex.
 * Robert Laxalt, Basque-American writer.
 * David McTaggart, 68, Canadian environmentalist and co-founder of Greenpeace International, car accident.
 * Karlis Ozols, 88, Latvian SS officer during World War II and chess champion.
 * Mischa Richter, 91, American cartoonist and illustrator.

24

 * Debabrata Basu, 76, Indian statistician.
 * Boris Berlin, 93, Russian-Canadian pianist, teacher and composer.
 * N. G. L. Hammond, 93, British classical scholar.
 * Tambi Larsen, 86, Danish-American set designer.
 * Kazuyoshi Oimatsu, 89, Japanese figure skater, coach and Olympian.
 * Karl Schönböck, 92, Austrian actor, stroke.
 * Brian Trubshaw, 77, British test pilot (Concorde).
 * Muriel Young, 77, British television announcer, presenter and producer.
 * Birgit Åkesson, 93, Swedish choreographer, dancer and dance researcher.

25

 * Dominick Basso, 63, American mobster (Chicago Outfit) and bookmaker.
 * Terry C. Johnston, 54, American writer of the Old West, colorectal cancer.
 * Larry Lansburgh, 89, American producer, director, and screenwriter.
 * Tiger Prabhakar, 53, Indian film actor, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
 * Mattheus Pronk, 53, Dutch racing cyclist.
 * Roy Staley, 85, American hurdler.

26

 * Michael Cocks, 71, British politician.
 * Brenda Helser, 76, American Olympic swimmer (gold medal winner in women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle swimming relay at the 1948 Summer Olympics).
 * Llazar Siliqi, 77, Albanian poet.
 * Piotr Sobociński, 43, Polish cinematographer (Three Colours: Red, Ransom, Marvin's Room), heart attack.
 * Bill Yates, 79, American cartoonist and comic strip editor, complications from pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease.

27

 * Sir Kenneth Alexander, 79, Scottish economist.
 * Anthony Dexter, 88, American actor (Valentino, Captain John Smith and Pocahontas, The Black Pirates, The Story of Mankind), stroke.
 * Robert Lee Massie, 59, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Boris Rauschenbach, 86, Soviet physicist and rocket engineer.
 * Giorgio Zuccoli, 43, Italian yacht racer and Olympian.
 * Tereza Štadler, 64, Serbian and Yugoslav chess player.

28

 * Jim Benton, 84, American football player, cancer.
 * George Connor, 94, American racecar driver.
 * Moe Koffman, 72, Canadian flautist and saxophonist, cancer.
 * Constantin von Liechtenstein, 89, Liechtenstein prince and alpine skier.
 * Lillian Palmer, 87, Canadian athlete and Olympic silver medalist.
 * Vulo Radev, 78, Bulgarian film director, writer, and cinematographer.
 * Jørgen Skov, 75, Danish cinematographer.
 * James Warren, 88, American film actor and artist.

29

 * Edward Frederick Anderson, 69, American botanist.
 * Malani Bulathsinhala, 51, Sri Lankan singer.
 * Gordon Hahn, 81, American politician (Los Angeles City Council, California State Assembly).
 * Rolando Hernández, 86, Mexican professional wrestler and wrestling trainer, heart attack.
 * Helge Ingstad, 101, Norwegian writer and explorer, and discoverer of a North American Viking landing site.
 * John Lewis, 80, American jazz pianist (Modern Jazz Quartet), cancer.
 * Hollis Sigler, 53, American artist and painter, breast cancer.
 * Norman Sisisky, 73, American politician, lung cancer.
 * Kōji Yamamoto, 48, Japanese basketball player and Olympian.

30

 * Fatiu Ademola Akesode, 61, Nigerian professor of paediatrics.
 * Cyrus Herzl Gordon, 92, American scholar.
 * Jeffrey Mass, 60, American academic, historian, author and japanologist.
 * George Mutch, 88, Scottish football player.

31

 * Jean-Marc Bory, 67, Swiss actor.
 * Diego García, 39, Spanish long-distance runner and Olympian, heart attack.
 * Edward Jewesbury, 83, English actor (Henry V, Crown Court, Dungeons & Dragons).
 * Naum Meiman, 88, Soviet mathematician, and dissident.
 * David Rocastle, 33, English professional footballer, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
 * Clifford Shull, 85, American Nobel Prize-winning physicist.
 * Colette Thomas, 72, French swimmer and Olympian.
 * Nakamura Utaemon VI, 84, Japanese kabuki performer.
 * Arthur Geoffrey Walker, 91, British mathematician.